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An economy based on precarious employment

IRDBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com28/06/2020Leave a comment

Informal economy is not black or illegal economy: it corresponds with unreported precarious jobs, which in some countries account for the overwhelming majority of jobs. Hence the importance of quantifying it.

Sterile insect technique - Cyrille Lebon (researcher at the MIVEGEC IRD unit) collects nymphs of tiger mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus) in a breeding tank in the laboratory. ©IRD/Thibaut Vergoz

Developing mosquito factories

IRDBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com20/06/2020Leave a comment

Carrying diseases such as chikungunya or dengue fever, the tiger mosquito is found in French overseas territories but also in the south of France. It is therefore essential to control this species, which raises new issues about control methods.

Rehabilitation of infrastructure in Niger - A road programme financed by the European Union aims to improve people's mobility and living conditions, promote trade, contribute to economic growth, open up rural areas through efficient infrastructure and improve national and regional integration. ©IRD/Philippe Lavigne Delville

Questioning the development process

IRDBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com13/06/2020Leave a comment

In the 1980s, the development community realised that many initiatives in favour of Global South countries were partial successes, sometimes even blatant failures.

Flooding caused by downpours

IRDBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com06/06/2020Leave a comment

Since the 1950s, the number of deaths caused by floods in Africa has increased fivefold. Human and cimatic factors are responsibles.

Amazon River ©IRD/Jean-Michel Martinez

Gauging rivers from space

IRDBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com30/05/2020Leave a comment

Knowledge of river flow, which is crucial information for agriculture, research or power generation, is not available everywhere from the ground. Satellites can remedy this.

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Sustainability Research and Innovation 2020 Congress becomes SRI 2021

IRD, ISCBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com26/05/2020Leave a comment

The important congress about research and innovation for sustainable development has a new date, one year later.

Public data on West African fisheries

IRDBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com23/05/2020Leave a comment

IRD has made public and free data gathered in West Africa’s estuarine, lagoon and continental ecosystems.

Peruvian industrial purse seiners in full activity of anchovy fishing. © IRD - Arnaud Bertrand

Assessing El Niño’s impact on fisheries and aquaculture around the world

IRDBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com09/05/2020Leave a comment

A report synthesize the current knowledge from oceanic and atmospheric sciences about the El Niño -Southern Oscillation, one of the most influential weather phenomenon over the world.

Aquaculture must deal with global warming and antibiotic resistance

IRDBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com02/05/2020Leave a comment

The use of antibiotics in aquaculture is likely to increase with climate change, leading to the emergence of more resistant bacteria.

School of fish in the coral reefs in New Caledonia © IRD - Jean-Michel Boré

Preserving both coral reefs and fisheries

IRDBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com25/04/2020Leave a comment

How can marine areas to be protected be most effectively defined by reconciling several SDGs?

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